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Book recommendation: Invisible Women - a very well sourced book on bias (specifically gender bias)
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<blockquote data-quote="Technut1990" data-source="post: 611186" data-attributes="member: 3774"><p>YRP,</p><p></p><p>I'm not inclined to read an entire book that starts off telling me that i'm bias or complicit in unknowing bias to begin with. The foreword has already frustrated me. I have lost male loved ones to car accidents, I myself was given the wrong meds for a wrong diagnosis and the buttons on I phones are so small that I can rarely type anything correctly.</p><p></p><p>Data may indeed point toward an apparent bias but the word bias is used way to much to identify groups when it can only truly be applied to individuals. Bias is a persons actions or thoughts based on THEIR criteria. Meaning i'm bias against Pepsi because I live in a Coke world. I don't think men make things to be hard on women, I think they make things to conform to what they are doing. If a man invented an I phone he most likely made it to fit his hand not to display bias toward a woman's smaller hands. </p><p></p><p>If I'm wrong on this book please tell me but I owe my entire life to women, my upbringing was done by my mother, grandmother and a few female cousins , none of whom spared the rod. My conservative attitude is because all of the women in my life were no nonsense right and wrong life approaching type women. I'm not conservative b/c of the men in my family and I dont buy the thought process that while objecting to bias, concludes that all men ( or Caucasians, cops, African Americans, Asians etc...) are bias simply because they are members of a certain demographic.</p><p></p><p>Things are relative, what one sees as manifest bias another (like my grandmother) would see as a challenge -- had my grandmother been alive when the I phone came out she would have been the one to make a mini phone and marketed it to women. She wouldn't have complained that her hands were to small, to her that would be giving up and there aint no giving up when you aren't the one who started it</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Technut1990, post: 611186, member: 3774"] YRP, I'm not inclined to read an entire book that starts off telling me that i'm bias or complicit in unknowing bias to begin with. The foreword has already frustrated me. I have lost male loved ones to car accidents, I myself was given the wrong meds for a wrong diagnosis and the buttons on I phones are so small that I can rarely type anything correctly. Data may indeed point toward an apparent bias but the word bias is used way to much to identify groups when it can only truly be applied to individuals. Bias is a persons actions or thoughts based on THEIR criteria. Meaning i'm bias against Pepsi because I live in a Coke world. I don't think men make things to be hard on women, I think they make things to conform to what they are doing. If a man invented an I phone he most likely made it to fit his hand not to display bias toward a woman's smaller hands. If I'm wrong on this book please tell me but I owe my entire life to women, my upbringing was done by my mother, grandmother and a few female cousins , none of whom spared the rod. My conservative attitude is because all of the women in my life were no nonsense right and wrong life approaching type women. I'm not conservative b/c of the men in my family and I dont buy the thought process that while objecting to bias, concludes that all men ( or Caucasians, cops, African Americans, Asians etc...) are bias simply because they are members of a certain demographic. Things are relative, what one sees as manifest bias another (like my grandmother) would see as a challenge -- had my grandmother been alive when the I phone came out she would have been the one to make a mini phone and marketed it to women. She wouldn't have complained that her hands were to small, to her that would be giving up and there aint no giving up when you aren't the one who started it [/QUOTE]
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